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Gusto Engineering
Company blog · engineering.gusto.comprogrammingcareer
Gusto Engineering is the company blog at engineering.gusto.com, writing about programming and career. Since 2015, 46 different Hacker News readers have linked it 94 times, most often “A developer-friendly explanation of centralized banking”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 6 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this engineering blog mainly for its multi-part series on how ACH payment transfers work from a developer's perspective. Most other mentions are job listings or citations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A developer-friendly explanation of centralized banking13 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2018-02-18
- How ACH works: A developer perspective (2014)5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2015-11-10
- The Beauty of Brownfield Development3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-11-24
- /how-ach-works-a-developer-perspective-part-3/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-08-25
- Scaling Sidekiq at Gusto3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-01
- /how-ach-works-a-developer-perspective-part-4/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-06-06
- /2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-01-02
- /how-ach-works-a-developer-perspective-part-3/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-30
- How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown from 1 to 100 engineers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-27
- Our Latest Cohort of Software Engineers Is 50% Female2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-23
What Hacker News says?
Gusto - VISA, ONSITE (SF or Denver) Gusto is building delightful payroll, benefits, and HR software for small businesses. In only 4 years, we've grown to process nationwide payroll for more than 40,000 companies, process more than $20B in payments, and serve our customers with health insurance, 401(k), and a host of HR features. Team culture is a huge part of what makes Gusto special. We have a team of super-sharp,…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown from 1 to 100 engineers as a story · 451 points
HN discussionGusto | VISA, ONSITE | Sr. Rails/React Engineer | San Francisco Gusto is building delightful payroll, benefits, and HR software for small businesses. We process $30B+ in annual payments for more than 40,000 corporate customers, helping them with payroll, health insurance, 401(k), and a host of HR features. Team culture is a huge part of what makes Gusto special. We have a team of super-sharp, passionate, hard-workin…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted How ACH works: A developer perspective (2014) as a story · 364 points
HN discussionGusto - VISA, ONSITE (SF or Denver) Gusto is building dead-simple, delightful payroll, benefits, and HR software for small businesses. In only 3.5 years, we've grown to process nationwide payroll for more than 30,000 companies, process $15B+ in payments, and recently added health insurance and workers compensation insurance. Team culture is a huge part of what makes Gusto special. We have a team of super-sharp, pass…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted Building a Data-Informed Culture as a story · 43 points
HN discussion> Dump some file in a directory and hope something is treating that directory like a queue Or it's unencrypted files on an FTP server containing literally the lifeblood of the American economy: https://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-pers... -_-
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on “The 2002 mandate for internal communication systems at Amazon”Submitted Lessons from Taking a Sabbatical as a Co-Founder/CTO as a story · 13 points
HN discussionGusto | Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Product Designers | SF or Denver | Full-Time | ONSITE Gusto’s mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life. We are making the most complicated, impersonal business tasks simple and personal. Imagine payroll that brings peace of mind, HR that transforms work into a community, and benefits that help people plan for a better future. Our small business…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted How ACH Works: A Developer Perspective – Same Day ACH as a story · 11 points
HN discussionGusto - VISA, ONSITE (SF or Denver) Gusto is building delightful payroll, benefits, and HR software for small businesses. In only 4 years, we've grown to process nationwide payroll for more than 40,000 companies, process ~$20B in payments, and recently added health insurance, 401(k), and a host of HR features. Team culture is a huge part of what makes Gusto special. We have a team of super-sharp, passionate, hard-wo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Submitted An Open Email about Diversity as a story · 9 points
HN discussionGusto | VISA, ONSITE | Sr. Rails/React Engineer | San Francisco Gusto is building delightful payroll, benefits, and HR software for small businesses. We process $30B+ in annual payments for more than 40,000 corporate customers, helping them with payroll, health insurance, 401(k), and a host of HR features. Team culture is a huge part of what makes Gusto special. We have a team of super-sharp, passionate, hard-workin…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)”Submitted Evolving JavaScript at Gusto: Goodbye Backbone, Hello React as a story · 9 points
HN discussionGusto | Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Product Designers [Senior Levels] | SF or Denver | Full-Time | ONSITE Gusto’s mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life. We are making the most complicated, impersonal business tasks simple and personal. Imagine payroll that brings peace of mind, HR that transforms work into a community, and benefits that help people plan for a better future. Our…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted End to End Feature Development at Gusto as a story · 8 points
HN discussionGusto | VISA, ONSITE | Sr. Rails/React Engineer | San Francisco Gusto is building delightful payroll, benefits, and HR software for small businesses. We process $30B+ in annual payments for more than 40,000 corporate customers, helping them with payroll, health insurance, 401(k), and a host of HR features. Team culture is a huge part of what makes Gusto special. We have a team of super-sharp, passionate, hard-workin…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Submitted Gusto's (formerly ZenPayroll) Engineering Diversity Numbers as a story · 7 points
HN discussionGusto - VISA, ONSITE (SF or Denver) Gusto is building dead-simple, delightful payroll, benefits, and HR software for small businesses. In only 3.5 years, we've grown to process nationwide payroll for more than 30,000 companies, process $15B+ in payments, and recently added health insurance and workers compensation insurance. Team culture is a huge part of what makes Gusto special. We have a team of super-sharp, pass…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”Submitted A developer-friendly explanation of centralized banking as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGusto - VISA, ONSITE (SF or Denver) Gusto is building dead-simple, delightful payroll, benefits, and HR software for small businesses. In only 3.5 years, we've grown to process nationwide payroll for more than 35,000 companies, process ~$20B in payments, and recently added health insurance, 401(k) and workers compensation insurance. Team culture is a huge part of what makes Gusto special. We have a team of super-sha…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Submitted Eliminating flaky Ruby tests as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGusto | VISA, San Francisco or Denver | Senior Rails/React Engineer | San Francisco Gusto is building delightful payroll, benefits, and HR software for small businesses. We process $30B+ in annual payments for more than 40,000 corporate customers, helping them with payroll, health insurance, 401(k), and a host of HR features. We have a team of super-sharp, passionate, hard-working, and friendly software engineers. Y…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)”Submitted Diversity begets Diversity as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGusto (formerly ZenPayroll) - VISA, ONSITE (SF or Denver) Gusto is building dead-simple, delightful payroll, benefits, and HR software for small businesses. In only 3 years, we've grown to process payroll for more than 25,000 companies and process billions in payroll for small businesses around the world. Team culture is a huge part of what makes Gusto special. We have a team of super-sharp, passionate, hard-working…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)”Submitted Scaling Sidekiq at Gusto as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHey Brad! I'd say it was a combination of hiring in-house experts (we did that to learn about payroll taxes), and lots of reaching out to people and not being afraid to pepper them with questions (for example, in the case of learning about the ACH system: https://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-pers... ) As for Denver, a ton of factors went into choosing it. Ultimately though, we just loved the peopl…
Comment linking /how-ach-works-a-developer-perspective-part-1/
on “How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown from 1 to 100 engineers”Submitted How ACH works: A developer perspective as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGusto | Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Product Designers [Senior Levels] | San Francisco, CA or Denver, Colorado | Full-Time | ONSITE Gusto’s mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life. We are making the most complicated, impersonal business tasks simple and personal. Imagine payroll that brings peace of mind, HR that transforms work into a community, and benefits that help people plan…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”Submitted Gusto Engineering's Diversity Update: It's Not Just About the Numbers as a story · 3 points
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